JOURNAL ARTICLE

Fugitive Motherhood, Maroon Revisions, and Otherwise Possibilities in William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The President's Daughter.

  • Published In: J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 2024, v. 12, n. 1. P. 531 1 of 3

  • Database: America: History and Life with Full Text 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Winters, Lisa Ze 3 of 3

Abstract

This essay contends the paratextual depiction of the eponymous heroine of William Wells Brown's 1853 Clotel; or The President's Daughter invites a speculative reconsideration grounded in Black feminist theoretical frameworks of Brown's exploration of the possibilities of freedom for the fugitive subject in the antebellum United States. Through this reassessment Clotel emerges as a fugitive mother who theorizes the geographies of slavery imagining a world for her and her child entirely different from the one that otherwise rules their possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. 2024/03, Vol. 12, Issue 1, p531
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:2166-742X
  • DOI:10.1353/jnc.2024.a939671
  • Accession Number:180392089
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